Help Guide

HTML

This page is intended as a rough guide to help the beginner customize their own official page. For a guide to HTML in brief see a quick guide, but for a more complete picture there are many on line guides including:

The NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML
Putting Information onto the Web

One useful tip missing from the "quick guide" is advice on how to include a postscript link. This can easily be done as follows:

Create postscript file. If this is from LATEX use
```
 dvips filename -o
```
Put your postscript file in a directory in your own personal web directory (see below). Note it is a good idea to create a new directory "papers"
Remember to make the file and the directory readable to all:
```
chmod 755 papers
chmod 644 papers/ref.ps
```
type: <A HREF="http:papers/ref.ps">Name of reference </A>

HTML can be avoided completely by using the web page editor in Netscape 4. This is not the default but can be run by typing: netscape4& on the maths network.

Using the example:

The simplest way to create you own official page is to use the example. To customize this page using Netscape 4:

Run Netscape 4 by typing: netscape4&
Go to: http://fourier.dur.ac.uk:8000/stats/people/perexample.html
Choose: File-Edit Page
Choose: File-Save As
Save as: /usr/local/WWW/pages/stats/people/yourintials/yourintials.html
Make file readable to all: chmod 644 yourinitials.html

If you prefer to edit the raw HTML in your favorite text editor the example file can be found at: /usr/local/WWW/pages/stats/people/perexample.html.

Course files:

Save all files in directory (/usr/local/WWW/pages/stats/courses/coursename). It is helpful if you make the file read/writable for the whole group (instead of just you, as in all your personal files). This is so that if you stop teaching a course the files can be easily inherited. To to this type:

chmod 664 file.name

Other files:

Please note that a directory (/usr/local/WWW/pages/stats/people/yourintials) has been provided for you to keep all you personal web related files. This includes postscript files of publications etc. By all means use this space as you wish but do not save any person details elsewhere.

Any problems please contact: Peter Craig.